Mutants And Monsters

Since 2002, Mutants & Masterminds has earned its title as the World's Greatest Superhero RPG, inspiring countless game sessions and winning many awards for excellence. The Mutants & Masterminds Hero's Handbook is the core rulebook of the game's third edition, giving you everything you need to have your own superheroic adventures. The detailed character creation system lets you create the hero you want to play, choosing from a wide range of skills, advantages, and power effects. Customize your hero's powers with modifiers to create an almost endless range of superhuman abilities. Choose the complications your hero must overcome, earning you the hero points to achieve victory. You can also choose from one of more than a dozen heroic archetypes, customize as you like, and be ready to play in just minutes! The streamlined system of game play requires only a single die roll and features easy-to-use rules. Play out an entire heroic adventure in a few short hours without long, drawn-out encounters. Plus, the hero point system allows players to influence the flow of the story and pull off superheroic stunts in the best comic book tradition! Become a hero of legend with the Mutants & Masterminds Hero's Handbook!

Suspenseful, intriguing, simply irresistible: since its debut just a year ago, Mysteries Unwrapped™ has captivated kids. Even reluctant readers love the appealing, high-interest topics and cool "secret file” design that they just have to open. The newest entry to the series introduces children to some of the world’s most fascinating, but now long-gone, civilizations: - Find out about Ur--a thriving ancient city that disappeared under sand - Learn about the Maya and the lengths they went to to appease the gods - Puzzle out the clues to the legendary lost city of Atlantis - Read the graffiti written on the walls of Pompeii before Vesuvius erupted--and preserved intact - See the city "hidden by the Gods”: Angkor Wat, a Khmer temple and religious center in Cambodia

Emerald City is a brand new setting for your MUTANTS & MASTERMINDS Third Edition campaign. Set in the same universe as the award-winning Freedom City, Emerald City provides a home base for your heroes and a place they can shine. This rich and detailed sourcebook describes a fully realized city that until recently was downright normal. It didn''t have alien armadas filling the sky, or mad gods trying to turn it into a Hell on Earth. Things were stable... until the Silver Storm tore through the city and unleashed a flood of dangerous super-villains and monsters. Now criminal masterminds have cast aside years of fragile peace, ready to go to war to settle old scores and claim the throne of the city''s underworld. Emerald City has no established teams to call on in this crisis. It is a city that needs heroes. Will you answer the call?

Introduces such "monsters" as the Yeti, chupacabras, and the Loch Ness monster, creatures which may, or may not, exist.

While Mutants & Masterminds players create heroes, the Gamemaster creates the villains, the adventures, and the entire world where the series takes place. That can be a lot of work, but the Mutants & Masterminds: Gamemaster's Guide is here to help. This book has everything a M&M Gamemaster needs, from guidelines on creating challenges and adventures to advice on designing your own setting and series. The Gamemaster's Guide includes guidance on how to set up and run your game and to help your players create the best heroes, archetypes that make building villains easy, world-building tips, and options for modifying the game to suit your group's play style.

Docktopus, the aquatic nibbler; Skeeterman, the campground creep; and Spook Ook, the attic thumper: these and other creatures lurk on the pages of this quirky how-to. And they’ll reach out and grab kids, "drawing” them into the world of monster art. There’s a ton of great information here on creating weird eyes, strange skin textures, bizarre legs and arms, and a host of creepy facial features so kids will have no trouble creating their very own freaks of nature. See how to add extra limbs, tails, horns, wings, scales, and other effects too! It won’t be long before you’ve brought to life a gallery of fleshed-out monsters.

Collects Uncanny Origins #1-7. Explore the origins of Marvel’s most incredible characters, retold in action-packed animated style! Cyclops, Beast and the Angel are three of the founding members of the X-Men — but before they ever met Professor X, how did they deal with the frightening first manifestations of their mutant powers? Learn how Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch went from frightened orphans to sworn enemies of the X-Men and finally to heroic Avengers! Feel the fury of Firelord, once and future herald of the world-eating Galactus! Discover true rage, courtesy of the Incredible Hulk — for the madder he gets, the stronger he gets! And witness how Eddie Brock met his symbiotic alien “other” — and became the vicious Venom! Thrill to the events that shaped Marvel’s most iconic heroes and villains as you’ve never seen them before!